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We hope this message will light up your day today.

I titled it the Disciples that Cover. What word is

that anyone knows what it means exactly? Never mind, that's

why we're here to learn, right, Okay, the Disciples that Cover.

We are still this year in the theme of disciples first,

and I think it's very important that we know what

kind of disciples we are, right, whether useful or not

so useful to the lot lah. Okay, we can be

called we can call ourselves disciples. But I think there's

some secret that we can learn about this particular theme

of cover. Okay, So I want to start by us

engaging you. When we were worshiping just now right in

an awesome some of you were lost in a time

of worship during prayer time. What was the image of

God that was in your mind? Next slid, what is

your image of God? I want you to either write

it down, you can draw it for some of you

who are illustrators or artistic, right, what is your image

of God? Can you just capture? Just give you a moment, right, everyone,

if you just think about it, what is your image

of God? You can close your eyes and just say

what is it? What is the Holy Spirit bringing to

your mind right now? What is the image? Okay? And

either thought comes into your mind, I want you to

capture that and put it down into your notebook or

if you're writing notes on your phone, then just put

it down. What is the image that kind of captures

you right now? The image of God? Okay, we will

revisit this. This is very important and I wanted to

just latest foundation for us. Are we okay? Do you

have the picture of God in your mind? An image? Okay?

A right? Good? Good? Good? Now? All right, So just

now I went on and on about how tired we were,

right So then I told as I went home, I

told Emma, A Emma, you know, can you please pray

for me because I haven't prepared my message yet. I

reached over at eight o'clock selling something eight o'clock. Then

I say, oh, I haven't prepared, but she's like what okay?

Now after that eleven o'clock she sleptery you know, and

I was there still there busy preparing message. And I

hope that it will be of a blessing to you

a man. All right, now, how I came up with

this was there's something that the Lord has reminded me

over and over again, and I think recently as well,

I've been going through this phase you know where I

hear people are tired tired? Do we have tired people? Yeah, exhausted,

not just physically but emotionally, mentally, spiritually. Do you feel that?

Do you feel that I know our campus students right.

Sometimes you're just like, I'm so busy with my assignments.

Do you did Oh my gosh, I can I tell you?

I resonate with you, I identify with you. Okay, this

is old student. Okay, also student doing her masters. I

don't know why I'm there, but oh yo, I tell

you what this is very funny. Okay, I tell you

inside Joe, inside your So you know there's four of

us doing our masters together. Is Passus Hendra the busiest

woman on earth? Myself not so busy. Pasta Sarah the

second busiest person in ex church. I think she's running

l she's running X kids right. And then of course

Passa Jack right, so he's you know, he's in the

school Victory Academy. So four of us are in it.

And sometimes we go like why are we in this

like we've got nothing else better to do? Right? It

was so busy already, and yet it was so funny

because just last Monday we had that assignment you assignment

you at TED nine fifty five PM. I don't know

why the lecture said nine fIF CAPA students got such

thing on Now it's either nine fifty five or eleven

fifty nine. Okay, they're like co right on, see is

Israel a okay? So then because we were so busy

right last week were a spr vision retreat okay, you

had meetings from nine to nine forget it, No, no

assignment's done, and then Saturday Sunday go other things happening

constantly Sunday all that, and so Monday I was like, oh,

writing this group project assignment at nine thirty nine thirty

assignment due day is nine fifty nine er okay, nine

fifty five. At nine thirty I only submit to twenty teen. Okay.

I was like, oh my gosh, okay, lucky thing I

could you know, go through? It was okay. And then

after that at nine forty six, I submitted the report

really cutting it close, you know, and then the whole day, right,

we've been added because there was few assignments you at

the same time. So we're like, okay, we will do

different things. And I tell you, my gosh, the tension

in my body after you summit ready, right, You're like,

and then for three days I cannot think I was

just exhausted, right campus students, right, you feel me because

I feel you, okay, And and it's it's just a

this is then you you go like, then what's next? Right,

because that's not the end. That's not the end. There's

more right, I'm not done with the musters. We've got

one more year. We completed one year, by the grace

of God, there's another year to go. I'm like, okay, hour, ohie,

one more year. Okay, now my pray for me okay.

And and so so that's that that that physical tire.

But but it's not it's more than that. It's a

mental tiredness, you know. It's it is the thing over

your head that cannot go off right, even though you

go on holiday or whatever. It's just this umbrella will

your hat that you you just can't get over it.

I met up with a friend recently who's just gone

for grief counseling. For the loss of a mom. It's

been a year and still she says, you know, I

don't know why. Sometimes it just hits me and I

just see that crying, you know, and after that you

spiral down. Yeah, you know what I mean. When it

comes it hits you, then you're like, I'm just going

down and down and I don't know how to pick

myself up. Right. Earlier this week, I was doing our

family finances and then I was like, looking at it,

I'm like, oh wow. Then there's a sinking feeling that okay, wow,

savings depleted, different expenses to pay. Do you know things

are very expensive now, and you're like, every every cent

counts right, every eating out counts right. And you know

Chinese people and we don't order drinks on right, because

we say we only pay us necessity, right, We pay

for the food. What do you drink? We bring our

own bottle put there, correct. So that's how we think

about money, right. So that there's and you know, I

went into this almost like a single right because there's

all these things that's going around and you just feel

so overwhelmed, overwhelmed, and I had to catch myself and

I say, oh god, this is this is not me. Okay,

I don't I don't usually go like that, right, but

it hit me. It hit me earlier this week, and

I just say, God, I need to get out of

this right now. Church. I let me ask you this question. Right, So,

when you hear of something like this, you know, you

know someone is going through a tough time. You know

they're just feeling down, and you know helpless, overwhelmed. Overwhelm

is the word. Okay, what is the usual Bible verse

that you know? We're good Christians? Right? You say, okay,

let me use this to encourage my brother or my sister.

What do you know? What are some of God's you know,

the verses in the Bible that you know of. Tell

me those that way to the Lord shell, we knew

they are strange. Do we know this verse? Ah? Okay,

there you go, exhausted, tired, helpless, this courage? So there

is that verse? Any other verses that you'll hang on

to or that you used to encourage? Do you all

know the verse the old Mabel? Just quote it? Yes,

any other verses that comes to your mind. Don't worry

about anything about pray about everything right by thanksgiving and praise.

You know, it supplication, present your gifts, present your request

before the Lord. Correct. Okay, So can we agree that

these are some of the common verses that you hang

on to. Yeah, okay, cool, So we will go with

the first answer, which is Elder Mabel. She's spot on rights.

She's the one that's very prophetic. She's like, don't tell

everyone loud, I say no, no, no, we sell pret

your gifting. Okay, So now we're gonna go into that verse.

Can we have the next light? Okay? So Isaiah forty

thirty one. Okay, shall we can you see this? Okay,

let's read this together? Right? Three two one. Those who

wait on the law shall renew their strength. They shall

mount up with wings like eagles. They shall run and

not be weary. They shall walk and not faint. Amen,

Isaiah forty verse thirty one. Got it? Now, this is

a verse that we always called correct because it's like, yeah,

you know, if you've been in church long enough, you

would have known this. You know, this verse light is

something that we always talk about. Okay, now look at

the word here, uh eagles eagles Okay, okay, second sort

of scribbling for you to do what comes to your

my next light when you think of the image of

an ego? What do you what do you perceive? Right, ego? Ego?

What do you perceive in the image of an ego?

I want you to just write it down, Just have

a think, have a think. What is the image of

an ego? And in a show what I'm gonna ask

for your response? Eagle ego? Do you have an image?

All right? You have some thoughts around that image? Okay,

So now I want to invite you to shut out

your answers. What do you perceive when you think of

an image of an ego? All right? Some answers, please, ball, majestic? Good?

What else? Sorry? Free? Freedom, freedom? Oh? We like this, right,

we like freedom that it represents. Protector, Yeah, definitely, sorry, fearless?

Whoa nice? Nice? We're on a row. A few more,

A few more? Sorry, sore? Is that the word I heard? Soaring?

Soaring high? Yeah? Nice? Right. Let's go back to the

verse again Isaiah forty thirty one. It says they shall

mount up with wings like eagles. They shall run and

not be weary, they shall walk and not fain. What else?

What else do you see from the image of an ego?

Anything else? Strength? Do you see strength strength. Yeah. Okay,

So do you want to be an ego? You want

to be human? Okay, I mean, hey, hello, this is

called analogy. La yo, I know you want to be human.

Thank you, thank you for bringing the humor in. But

like cla, right, do you want to be like an eagle? Yes?

And no? Yes, thank you very much. Because the thing is,

if you're not an eagle, you are this. You are

like this little chicken right, also a bird. Okay, I

just want to do it because it's just so fun now,

just so fun to press the chicken. So if we

are not eagles, then we are like chicken. Laugh. We

should do you want to be you want to be chicken?

Or you want to be ego? Ego? Ego? And so

I now segue into a short intermission for advertisement. Okay,

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don't be a chicken and chicken out? Okay, all right, okay,

intermission done, All right, coming back coming back to our message. Okay,

so we want to be eagles? Agreat Do you want

to be eagles? Okay? Now, now I want to introduce

this book called Isaiah. Do you know the profit? Right?

So you know that in your Bible. It's one of

the first prophets in the Old Testament, agreed in your Bible.

If you don't know, you open the page of table

of contents. You will notice that Isaiah is after the

Song of Solomon. After all, the poetry is Isaiah. How

many of you actually like prophecy? Okay, five people. The

rest of you don't know what to do with it?

Right when you read the Books of the Prophets. You're like,

I cannot understand it. There is no context and it's

so far removed from us that you you're like, gong mare,

what is it saying? I don't understand the Book of Prophecy?

But can I tell you something very interesting about Isaiah? Now?

Do you know the person who? Actually? Do you know?

By the way, can I tell you original scroll when

written by prophet Isaiah? There was no versus, there's no

chap this one. Do you know that? It was just

like a long scroll and it just roll r R road.

So I think it's only in the eighteen hundreds. Some

very clever pre say, are you a very hard la

to find verses? So let's do chaptering, you know. So

they put in Bible chapters into Isaiah, and then after

that the verses came in. So that's why now we

have chapters and verses not the most useful actually, because

you know what happens. We become text finders. You know

why I say that, because I can tell you only

know Isaiah forty thirty one. Do you know it's Isaiah

forty thirty twenty nine twenty eight? Don't know?

Right?

We become very text people, right, and so sometimes we

may caught things out of context. So what do you

make out of this verse again? Right? So we need

to put things back into the context of what's happening

now Again, I just want to encourage you to fall

in love with God to it, Kennon R. I'm currently

going through the Book of Isaiah myself, and I find

it's so encouraging, right to just read and meditate God's

word Isaiah forty Now the person right, whether coincidence or not,

do you know that he actually I think it's a

HeLa actually divided the whole Isaiah's Scroll into sixty six chapters.

Something familiar with you about the number sixty six? What

is it correct? The books of the Bible? Sixty six? Hey? Interesting?

H And what was more interesting is the first half

of the book? Right, there's a theme, right, So the

whole of Isaiah, there's two themes. One team is in

the first thirty nine chapters and then there's another team

in the next twenty seven chapters. Does this sound familiar?

What is it correct? The the nine books in the

Old Testament, twenty seven books in the New Testament, and

the team is no one you know? So if you

read the whole of first thirty nine chapters of Isaiah,

you will recognize that it's all do man gloom, do

man gloom, do main gloom. Judgment is coming, your enemies

are coming, as Syria is coming, Babylonian is coming. Doom, doom?

Do any ends with Hezekaya king Hezekiah. It was at

the lowest of the kingdom of Israel? Do you know that?

And right after that chapter forty onwards it was the

New Testament. It summarizes everything that we know of the

New Testament. What do you know of the New Testament?

Matthew marn look and John? Right the New Testament? What

does it say when John the Baptist came? What did

John the Baptists say when he came into the scene?

Prepare the way of the Lord? Correct? And you're gonna

see this very shortly as we go through Isaiah forty.

Are you okay? Are you excited to go into Isaiah forty?

It's a New Testament that we're talking about. So if

you say, what the whole Bible to read a very

big booker, can I encourage you to read Isaiah? Just

start with the prophet Isaiah because it's almost like the

whole Bible in a miniature. You can see the whole

picture of the Bible in Isaiah. Is that? Okay? What's

very interesting about Isaiah? I like you know, so can

we have the next slide? Do you know this verse?

For unto us a child is bond, the government shall

be on his shoulder. His name shall be called Wonderful

counselor Mighty God everlasting. For the principle you know this?

We always see this at Christmas. Right. Where is it found?

It's in the book of Isaiah. Huh, prophecy. Right, we're

talking about see what's gonna happen in the future, and

it's found in Isaiah. Let's see of some other phrases

that we are familiar with. Okay, so the next night

will show you. You know this worth grieving the Holy Spirit.

Do you think Jesus first coined it when he came

onto the scene? No, it was in Isaiah. Do you

know this phrase, God will wipe away all tears? You

think it's only in Revelation? No, Isaiah said already, how

about a voice crying in the wilderness? We heard that.

Just now, prepare the way of the Lord. You shall

be my witnesses. Hey, extra, Jesus is our anchorvers Okay,

you should notice, and we always quote it from Matthew

twenty eight. Right, you shall be my witnesses city, and

you're gonna make disciples, you know. So that's our anchor.

But do you know that it was already there in

Isaiah one of us, every niche all about every time

confess you think it was only in Philippians. It was

there already in Isaiah. Do you know that? Interestingly? Right

the Bible that Jesus knew of the Old Testament. Out

of all the scrolls, he and Paul quoted Isaiah the most.

They loved the book. They love the prophet. And so

I want to encourage your church. If you really want

to be like Christ, then this is a book that

I suggest you get familiar with. Fall in love with amen.

All right, So just a little bit of introduction to Isaiah. Now, okay,

so let's try to understand. So, like I said, right,

we need to understand contexts because sometimes we just use

the Isiah forty thirty one. Someone someone gave me one before,

and know she just put it on a post. It

not Isaiah forty thirty one. For you. I'm like, ooh,

what is? So that I go look up WHOA very comforting,

you know, And that was as much as I knew. Right,

those who wait on the Law show, you know, saw

like wings on ego, Da da da, they should you know,

walk and off it. I'm like, okay, okay, but I

think the lot one to bring us deep is that. Okay,

So let's just go a few verses above that. Like

I said, let's go to verse twenty eight and twenty nine.

Next the next light. Now, let's look at this right.

It says he gives power to the weak and to

those who have no Mighty increases strength even the youth,

even the you shall feign and be weary all yeah,

people say, oh yeah, and the young man shall utterly fall.

So when we're thinking about strength here, we're thinking not

about physical agility. We're not talking about how young you are,

because can I tell you, young people, you also get tired, right,

Because now we're not talking about a physical tiredness. We're

talking about a mental, a spiritual, and emotional tiredness that

cannot go away with sleep. You know what I'm saying.

Sometimes you know you're physically tired, right, after you know

physical acting, you think like, okay, just sleep. As long

as you sleep, it's enough. But it's not okay. So

he says that Now you know what I take comfort

in this is? Firstly, do you see that God wants

to give you power? Can you see that? Not he

gives power to the weak. He's not asking you a

be stronger. You go and exercise more. Do you know

what I'm saying? That's what we always say. Right here.

You feel so tired. I think you should sleep more.

I think you should eat more. You know, I think

you should work out a bit more, exercise a little bit.

But God is not like that. He says, I will

give you power because you are awake. I'm the one.

I'm the source of all power. So you think if

you're already weak, you got energy to like psych yourself up? Yeah,

say yes an amen, amen on ourselves. It seems impossible.

Even the young people were like, oh yeah, we are tired,

right and so I you know, it just seems to

me God, God is the one. He's like, hey, I'm

ready to give you power. I want to give you strength.

But you know there's a condition attached to this. God

wants to do something, but there needs to be a

response from us. Do you agree? There's always that one?

You know, God as a good father, I want to

give you gifts. Let's say I got yesterday part of

the amazing race trip right. We had to pass by

the iPhone the Apple store in TRX, my first time there.

Can you see so on tie right? Never go before?

So we went through the Apple store. Can I tell

you what it was like, passa malam? Why every owl

was full of people? Why? Because they say they just

launched the new iPhone seventeen? Is it? Okay? I got

the vision correct, And it seems that for students you

get free I bought or whatever whatever. Okay, I'm like, oh,

how much is an iPhone seventeen? By the way? Three

ring gata? No? Seven eight thousand? Right, I don't know,

I don't know ten thousand correct, it's not ten ringate,

my dear friends, passa malam, I understand tenrigate? Everybody there right?

Ten thousand ringate? I'm like, well, these people all free one?

Is it? iPhone? Okay? Anyways? Why do I get there?

So distracted? Right? But it's crazy, right, how people flock

to things like that, you know, and thinking that it's

it's you know, free anyways. So we want to understand

more right that it's not about how energetic you feel.

It's not about how strong you are physically. But like

I said, there is a condition that's a response. When

God gives us a gift. Let's say I want to

give to Elie the latest iPhone seventeen. I'm like, yeah, here, God, dear,

you did such an awesome job and worship leading, so

I'm gonna give you this gift. You're next streme okay,

side shout out there. And then what does she have

to do? She has to receive it, right, So you

cannot blame me if I say I give it to

you Ellie and she's like okay, and she leaves it there,

and then she walks away and she forgets all about it.

That's how we are with God. Sometimes God is ready

to pour out his spirit on his people, and then

sometimes you're like, oh it's okay, thank you, bye, see

you next week or not. Right. So every gift everything

that God wants to give us, and in this case power,

God wants to give us power. But if you're not

willing to receive it, then you will go away. Tie

La still the same? True, Let's move on more? Can

I tell you that this? Right? You're not just okay?

Like God?

You move La because you're the powerful one. Right, So

I just say a prayer and you move? Can heal

my auntie? You know? Prave o salvation like that? You know,

just maybe give me that promotion. That kind of waiting

on the lot, that is not the biblical and understanding

of waiting. But when what do we do when we wait? Correct?

So we understand that the mean of waiting is like

pausing for a bit. And many of us are waiting

for something? Is that right? Can I? I don't need

to prophesy? I know all of us are waiting for something.

We are waiting in anticipation of a better life. Correct?

Do all of us want a better life? When you

can be free from pain, you can be free from medication,

you can be free from difficult relationships. We are all

waiting for a better tomorrow. Now, So the waiting is

an active you know, while you wait, what do you do?

It's an active word? Because you remember when you read

Isaiah forty thirty one, it says they shall mount out

on wings like they shall walk, they shall run and

not be weary. They shall walk and not faining. Correct.

Does it look like a picture of waiting sitting down? No,

so the picture is an active You know, we are

still running. We are still walking, and that's how we wait.

That's how we wait because as we are walking, as

we are running, we are being We're shifting our perspective

of our lived realities. Your reality is the same, right,

You still have that mom, you still have that cousin,

you still have that nasty boss. That doesn't change. But

the hope that we have is saying, God, I am

shifting how I view my real reality. Now, now do

you get that? Church, It's very important for you to

catch you right. How are you going to shift your

perspective of your reality? And this is something that only

God can help us do. Do you know that? Because

He encourages us to renew our minds. Are we renewing

our minds or not? That's the thing. If we don't

renew our minds, then everything will look as though it's

the same. Do you know the context of why Isaiah

wrote this to the children of Israel is because they

were in bondage. Remember I told you the first thirty

nine chapters. It was the downhill of the Kingdom of God.

They were in Babylonian exile. They were all pressed, and

they were depressed. That is the condition of the people.

When Isaiah wrote this, he's saying, hey, hello, I know

you're tired. I know you are suffering right now. But

do you know suffering has a way of shaping our perspective.

When you suffer, especially when you suffer for a long time,

you can become so disillusion that you say, I just

want to give up. I just want God just take

my life with whela now now, Lord, because if I'm

living in constant pain and not just physical pain, emotional pain,

I just feel so tired. I'm in the pit. I

don't know how to get it. Can you imagine being

in a pit for a long time and no way.

You feel like there's no way outright. That suffering has

kept you there in prison. And I want to prophesy

in the name of Jesus, anyone who's right now there

in the pit, be released in the name of Jesus. Amen,

you do not have to submit to that pit, because

Jesus is overcoming. He has overcome that pit. It's called

death and sin. Can I tell you that friends, you

believe that, Amen, say amen to yourself. I'm free from

that pit. I don't need to stay. I know no

longer need to stay in that trap of this. That's

a lie of the enemy. You know, if you believe

in that life, whatever Jesus did on the cross useless

rendered useless. So can you tell yourself? Can you prophesy

to your own Spiritmen, I don't need to stay in

this pit. Jesus has brought me out of this pit. Amen. Amen, hallelujah?

Are you are you getting something? You're getting something from

the Lord. His word is so good. Let's move on

to the next slide. Now, the word to wait, one

of the Hebrews weight is called cover. Remember that's why

I say the title of your message to day is

disciples that cover. Now cover comes from the root. We're

called cough, which is a rope or a cord. Okay,

so a rope or a cord. Do you see this?

And the actual meaning right of this word cover? Right,

it means you are intertoined together. But you see is

being pulled attention like a rope, right, that is being

pulled to attention. Do you feel this is like you?

Right now? Your children is demanding your time, your husband

needs you. Pull tension, you're stretched, You're not the word

where you stretched. If you stretch, like beyond your capacity

like wa Ellie asked me to come for six am

worship practice or stretch, stretch, stretch right, and there's no release.

You know, you're like, oh, one thing after another. Do

you feel like that one thing after another, assignment after

assignment or ig students one whole man of exam. Okay,

please pray for them because they're being Can you continue

to pray for them because they need stemina right all

the way until the end of November. No, it's a

long race. You're being stretched stretched, and this meaning right

when you are cover means you are like you're in this,

but you are still waiting for that release. Do you

know that when you're stressed like that, when your body

is tense, you just want release. You're like enough, really,

I'm so stretched, and we're like, can someone just release

me from this tension? Yeah? Yeah? Am I making sense?

When you're always so stretched by different demands, you know,

financial walls, whatever burdens, you're so stretched and you get snappy,

you get angry, you want to snap. True like this rope.

When the tension is too much, people snap and then

they break down and they burn out. True or not,

But why they use this word Cavale to say that

there is this anticipation, hope to hope, to wait on

the Lord is saying I'm waiting for this release. Lord,

I'm waiting for this release because without this release, I'm

gonna snap. Right. And this waiting, this waiting on the

Lord is not saying God, you change my circumstance. It's

saying God, I'm waiting until you come. I'm waiting. Do

you friends, do you believe that Jesus will come? That

is a hope? Is that not a hope that Jesus

will come? And so while we are waiting on the Lord,

we we need to remember that Jesus is coming. And

because he's coming, I can smile at the storm. Do

you know that Jesus, because he's coming, doesn't matter whatever

things you know happens in my life, It's gonna be okay. Now,

Very interestingly, I want to do another illustration and I'm

gonna ask other people to help me with this. He's

gonna come on stage right, and I need to go downstage.

You hold this don't hang yourself. Okay. Now the other

word for cover, right is actually the court, you know. No,

you hold it the bigger and I'm the small end. Okay.

So so now when I am holding on the word

cover is a cord, and it means I'm tightly bounded,

kneaded together. Right, And it's very important for you to

know who are you needed against. So if I say

I am right now in the pit, right, I'm feeling tired,

I'm feeling depressed, I'm feeling helpless. Oh whelm right, we say,

then do what? Okay, you know, wait upon the lord.

But waiting is not a passive activity. Remember I say

that waiting is not passive is saying I'm gonna hold

on to this, the one that gives me strength. Correct. Now,

I tell friends, I ask you, if I hold it

with my hands like that, right, you think I will

get tired, I'm gonna get tired, right, And how long

can I hold? If I'm really down in the pit,

and I'm like, even if if God has a strength

to pull me up, I will let go. Tr Not true,

not even if God. If I'm right right now, down

in a pit, right, and God sends me this as

my helpline. I hold onto it, but I'm gonna get

tired out and I'm gonna let go and I'm gonna

fall back in. So what it means right to cover

is to bind myself. You can slowly release, Yeah, to

bind myself, to bind myself with the one who gives

me hope. Do you know the court of tree folds

is not easily broken? And you can see that as

I bind myself with the one who gives me hope,

more and more what you see is less of me

and more of God. Amen. Do you see that? Hallelujah?

And can I tell you friends, the only way that

we can continue to bind ourselves with the Lord is

to wait upon him. Amen, to continue to say God,

I know I'm in the pit right now. I'm not

gonna look for my circumstances to change. I'm going to

focus on the one that I'm bound with. I'm gonna

continue to bind myself with the Lord until all the

people see in me. Right, it's not me, but what

they see is Christ. Amen. Amen, Let's give God praise.

That is God's illustration for us. So that what you

do when you wait, you know, and do you know

the promise is given to us. Now, what is the antidoor? Then?

What else can we learn from Isaiah? What is the

antidoor to tiredness? And it simply means when you wait

upon the Lord is to remember. Remember Church, remember what

the Lord has done for you. That is the kind

of active waiting. You know, as you're actively waiting, how

do you bind yourself with the Lord? You remember? Why

do we remember? Because we forget true or not, what

the Lord has done for you? The last thing all

of you forgot ready, right, ask you to share that.

The many don't have that the many because we've forgotten

what the Lord has done for us? So how do

we remember? How do we remember? And I love how

the prophet Isaiah teaches us. Let's move on quickly to

one versus A hit. Do you know that I'm going

backwards Isiah thirty one. Let's go through verse twenty eight.

What is verse twenty eight? Is the next light? Do

we have our next light? Okay? So this is from

verse ten? Okay, before that, I don't have, but I

want you to read verse twenty eight. It says, here

have you not known? Do you have your bibles? What

is verse twenty says? Have you not known have you

not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, the creator of

the ends of the earth, neither things nor is weary. Hey, hello,

what a good way to remember? Right when we are tired,

we remember that God is never tired. He is never weary.

His understanding is unsearchable. Wei, M I feel that? A. Yeah,

I only know so little. But God, do you remember

do you know who is the God that you call

your God? His understanding is beyond us, right, His ways

are highest, his thoughts are higher than ours. That is

the God that we serve. So let's maybe tit again, right,

and remember the first image I told you, what was

your image of God? Remember the very first question I

asked you, do you have that image in mind? And

then the second image was the image of the ego.

Now the third image. If you want to just open

your mind, I'm We're just gonna read from verse ten, okay,

all the way down. Just open your minds, open your

minds to see to remember who is this God that

we call our lord? Verse ten. Yes, the sovereign Lord

is coming in power. Can we say an amen to that?

Do you know that God is powerful, his sovereign He

will rule with a powerful arm. See, he brings his

reward with him as he comes. You know, Wow, you

come not just in power, but you come with a gift.

You come with a reward Verse eleven. He will feed

his flock like a shepherd. He will carry the lambs

in his arms, holding them close to his heart. He

will gently lead the mothership with their young. If you're

feeling tired, can you remember our good shepherd? Let's move on,

verst Off. Who else has held the oceans in his hand?

Who has measured all the heavens with his fingers? Are

you anyone can measure the heavens as you to measure

your body? Or okay, all right, with your fingers? The

Lord has measured the heavens. Who else knows the weight

of the earth? Anyone knows? You know? You only know

your own weight ray weight of the earth? Or has

weighed the mountains and the hills on a scale? Who

is able to advise the spirit of the Lord? Who

knows enough to give him advice or teach him? Has

the Lord ever needed anyone's advice? Does he need instruction

about what is good? Sometimes we tell God right, we

negotiate with him. Hey, God, I know, I know this

guy is good for me. I know this girl is

good for me. Go in sensitive plazer. But did the

Lord say this boy is good for you? Did the

Lord say this girl is good for you? Take that home? Okay?

Did someone teach him what is right or show him

the path of justice? No, for all the nations of

the world are but a drop in the bucket? Are

you scared of the nations, the powers, the armies. God says,

they are like a drop in the bucket. They are

nothing more than dust on not even nothing. No, that's

that's that you on the scales. He picks up the

whole earth as though it were a grain of sand. Wow,

I cannot find a smaller earth in that. That that's

the smallest picture of the earth in a the hand

of someone Verse sixteen. All the wood in Lebanons forests

and all labanonce animals would not be enough to make

a burn offering worthy of our God. The nations of

the world are worth nothing to him in his eyes.

They count for less than nothing, mere emptiness and froth

Verse eighteen. To whom can you compare God? What image

can you find to resemble him? Is there an image?

Is this something? God is bigger. Whatever you think you

can imagine, God is bigger Verse nineteen. Can he be

compared to an idle form in a mole overlaid with

gold and decorated with silver chains? Or if people are

too poor for that, they might at least choose wood

that won't decay and a skilled craftsman to carve an

image that won't fall down. These are some images of

idols Verse twenty one. Heaven you heard, don't you understand? Ex? Church?

Are you deaf to the words of God? Ex? Church?

The words he gave before the world began? Are you

so ignorant? God sits above the circle of the earth.

The people below seem like grasshoppers to him. He spreads

out the heavens like a curtain and makes his ten

from them. He judges the great people of the world

and brings them all to nothing. They hardly get started,

barely taking root, And when he blows on them and

they wither, the wind carries them off like chaff Verse

twenty five. To whom will you compare me? Who is

my equal? Asks the Holy One? Look up into the heavens. Friends,

if you're feeling very down right, can I just encourage

you one day. You just go out of your house,

look up into the stars, look up into the heavens

who created all the stars. He brings them out like

an army, one after another, calling each by its name.

Because of his great power and incomparable strength, not a

single one is missing. Oh Jacob, how can you say

that the Lord does not see your trouble? Oh Israel?

How can you say God ignores your rights? Amen? Why

do we accuse that God has forgotten about us? It's

because we've forgotten. And so part of the way we

bind ourselves to the Lord is to remember. Every time

you remember, you strengthen yourself. You know, you're not holding

on me, you're just your bare arms anymore. You're you're

infusing your entire body with the word. You know, and

it is that word. Do you know that if I

was bound like that all the way, I don't need

to do anything really right? The Lord just leaves me out.

You know what I'm saying. I don't need to it's

my own strength because He is the one who gives

me power. But I I need to bind myself with

the Lord. That is our part to do. Friends, that

is what we need to do, and that's something that

all of us find it so hard to do because

we forget, we get distracted by things of this world.

And that's why by coming here listening to me, you're

binding yourself one call at the time, you do know it,

So one call at the time. Thing, it's austraight away,

one day done. It's a day by day process. It's

a day by day every war, every home, every preservice,

every worship Sunday. You come, you come, You're binding yourself

to the world of God, to the power of God,

to the presence of God until people see you. Hey,

this on Christler Where is elder? People don't know, but

she's behind low Christ because she just continues to bind

herself every day, praying, interceding, speaking in tongues and binding

myself to the Lord until we become behind the scenes.

It's not about us, yeah, Church, can I tell you

it's not about us? Why do I say it's not

about us? Let's go even further up right, Let's read

from Versus six to nine, because we have a message

to tell. Do you know that we have a message? Friends,

We have a message. So us being bound by the

Lord like that, it's not just so that, Okay, so

that I can go to Heaven by myself. The reason

why we strengthen ourselves is because there is an assignment

for us. Can I tell you what's an assignment? Versus

six to nine. It says this. So the voice Isaiah,

the prophet, is saying this to us. As he prophesied

to the nation of Israel. A voice says, shout right here, Isaiah,

the word shout, and he asks what should I shout?

Shout that the people are like the grass. Their beauty

fades away quickly as the flowers in the field. The

grass withers and the flowers faith beneath the breath of

the Lord. And so it is with people. The grass

withers and the flowers faith. But the word of the

Lord stands forever. We sang that song ray, the word

of the Lord stands forever. Oh Sion, Oh ex Church,

Oh ex Church, Messenger of good news, this is our signment.

Shout from the mountaintops. Shout it lo no o ex Church,

shout and do not be afraid. Tell the towns of Subangjaya,

your God is coming. Hallelujah. The reason why we are

in Subangjaya is because this is our assignment. Let's stop

with summit Forasla. Let's tell the towns in summit. Let's

tell all the shop lots in Summit. Your God is coming.

Once we're done here, let's move out Subanjaya. Your God

is coming. Amen. That is our simon. Hallelujah. Do you

receive your assignment? God is coming. And I like to

end with this because you know, as we remember our

role with our Lord, as we bind ourselves so that

we are strengthened to be the messenger. And I like

to close us up by just going back to the

very first few verses of Isaiah forty. Are you ready, beautiful,

remember thirty nine chapters of prophecies of destruction, of being

exiled or being oppressed. Now Here is the good news.

If you're looking for good news. Verse forty, Chapter forty,

Verse one, Comfort, Comfort, my people, says your God. This

is the assignment that God gave me to you. He says,

comfort his people. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, tell her that

her sad days are gone and her scenes are pardon

God has pardoned your sins. Yes, the Lord has punished

her twice over for all her sins. Listen is the

voice of someone shouting, clear the way through the wilderness

for the Lord. Make as straight highway through the waste land.

Amen for our God. Feel in the valleys and level

the mountains and heels, strengthen the curves and smooth out

the rough spaces. Then the glory of the Lord will

be revealed and all people will see together. The Lord

has spoken. Amen. What the Lord has spoken shall not

return to him void. And so this is the context

of Isaiah fourteen, when God gave us and he prophesied

that there will be comfort, and he taught us all

the way how we remember and how we renew our strength.

I want to bring it back to the final slide,

and I believe that is the cross. This is a

combination of everything that we are hoping for. Without Jesus

dying on a cross, there is no hope, because it

is only through his death and his resurrection that we

have the hope of saying, yes, Lord, I know it's tough.

I know I'm going through stuff and it keeps coming.

But you are coming. Amen. Do you know things can

be thrown at you, But the moment you bind yourself

more and more to the Lord, it doesn't matter anymore.

It doesn't matter what comes your way, because Jesus is coming. Amen.

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